South Carolina Homeland Security Salaries

South Carolina has active efforts to protect its homeland security, thus providing employment for a number of professionals with expertise in this area. The average 2012 salary for some key homeland security positions is listed below. These values are followed by those for top earning professionals in the upper 10th percentile of their field. This information is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Homeland Security Jobs
Mean Salary
Information Security Analysts
$67160
Supervisors of Protective Service Workers
$37820
Transportation Security Screeners
$35410

Given South Carolina’s mix of rural and urban locales, its homeland security wages were variable throughout the state. The top earning information security analysts earned higher than the state average in Charleston and Columbia. They made $117,610 and $109,310, respectively.

The supervisors of protective service workers who were in the top 10th percentile in Charleston also made more than the state average. Their wages were $66,200 on average.

The salaries of transportation security screeners were fairly uniform throughout the state. Those located in Greenville made slightly more on average: $36,140

The information shown in these tables was furnished by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and represents salary data for many of the different homeland security jobs one could find in South Carolina’s major cities.

South Carolina Information Security Analyst Salaries

Area name
Employment
Annual mean wage
Augusta-Richmond County GA-SC
70
78430
Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville SC
280
61190
Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill NC-SC
1190
88810
Columbia SC
250
75900
Florence SC
30
65400
Greenville-Mauldin-Easley SC
120
66500
Spartanburg SC
Estimate Not Released
68140
Upper Savannah South Carolina nonmetropolitan area
Estimate Not Released
65930

South Carolina Protective Service Workers Supervisor Salaries

Area name
Employment
Annual mean wage
Augusta-Richmond County GA-SC
130
46970
Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville SC
80
48030
Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill NC-SC
460
48380
Columbia SC
320
32170
Greenville-Mauldin-Easley SC
50
36000
Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach SC
50
39600

South Carolina Transportation Security Screener Salaries

Area name
Employment
Annual mean wage
Augusta-Richmond County GA-SC
40
34520
Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville SC
130
35060
Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill NC-SC
480
35200
Columbia SC
80
35830
Greenville-Mauldin-Easley SC
100
36140
Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach SC
100
35130

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